US Patent Issued to Vay Technology on June 9 for "Platooning teleoperated vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,703, issued on June 9, was assigned to Vay Technology GmbH (Berlin).

"Platooning teleoperated vehicles" was invented by Karsten Gordon (Ringsee, Germany), Shilp Dixit (Berlin) and Mathias Metzler (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Platoons of vehicles are operated remotely by a teleoperator. A lead vehicle of a platoon establishes communications with a teleoperator station, which receives drive state data from the lead vehicle and generates reference instructions for the lead vehicle. When a lead vehicle is under control of a teleoperator, and a follower vehicle joins a platoon with the lead vehicle, the follow...